Golf Architect Ken Killian passed away at age 78 after a long bout with cancer. A list of his best courses includes: Kemper Lakes Hawthorn Woods, IL Eagle Creek Golf Course Findley, IL Crickentree Golf Course Blythwood, SC Valle Grande Albuquerque, NM arrowhead Golf Course Nekoosa, WI Golf designer Jeff Brauer was good enough to permit me to reprint a memorial piece...
Watch for another announcement regarding the Road Hole soon. Meanwhile, Tom Doak, Bandon Dunes head pro Jeff Simonds, and writer John Dunn discuss Doak’s version of the Road hole at Old Macdonald, the newest course at the Bandon Dunes facility.
The football world is shaking its collective head because Brett Favre has thrown aside his walker, Depends undergarments, Ensure and has turned traitor. After becoming a timeless football icon at Green Bay, he’s now stabbing Wisconsin in the back by signing to play for its archrival, the Minnesota Vikings. Hey Brad Childress: with just two years left on your...
People might not think of Indiana as a place to jet off for a golf vacation, but golf writer Chris Clouser is doing his best to change that. Best known as the biogropher of pre-eminent golf architect Perry Maxwell, Clouser’s second book, “A Month of Saturdays” is a helpful guide to the best of public golf in the state of Indiana. The book is a...
[Author’s note: while I have been working on this with Jeff for months, Jeff also answered some questions for GolfClubAtlas.com in a weekly series where members answer questions from each other. Jeff graciously let me include two or three of those answers verbatim from that thread since those questions overlapped with my own in this interview. Thanks also...
Hooray! Tom Doak’s great design at Apache Stronghold has re-opened on Wednesdays – Sundays.
Apache Stronghold has a number of great holes modeled after the Raynor template, including a Biarritz, a Redan, a Punchbowl and many others. The price is terrific too, well worth the drive out to Globe, AZ if you’re playing in the Scottsdale area.
I’ll be going into more detail here after I get back from D.C., but for now, here’s the article on White Bear Yacht Club, Interlachen, The Minikahda Club, and Hazeltine.
“Majestic doesn’t appeal to us; we like the Grand Canyon better with Clarence and Arlene parked in front of it, smiling.” — Garrison Keillor, “Lake Wobegon Days” — Clarence and Arlene are going to get their close-up for a whole week as the PGA Championship comes to the bucolic splendor of Chaska, Minnesota. In fact...
Thanks to Jeff Shelley. A little garrison Keillor for ya!
Nicely done, Jeff Shelley. Also congratulations to Lester George, the architect who did the revisions to the Old White.
Valhalla was recently selected to host the 2014 PGA Championship. Here’s a list of the other venues: 2010 – Whistling Straits, (Straits Course), Kohler, WI 2011 – Atlanta Athletic Club, (Lake Course), Atlanta, GA 2012 – Kiawah Island (Ocean Course), Kiawah Island, SC 2013 – Oak Hill Country Club, Rochester, NY 2015 – Whistling...
2010 – St. Andrews, (Old Course)
2011 – Royal St. George’s, Sandwich, ENGLAND
2012 – Royal Lytham and St. Annes, Blackpool, ENGLAND
2013 – Muirfield, SCOTLAND
2014 – TBA
2015 – St. Andrews, (Old Course)
(Photo of 9 tee at Turnberry Ailsa Course courtesy of Stewart Abramson) With a coastline that has inspired centuries of marriage proposals, ancient ruins historic enough to warrant their own university class, and a sports pedigree equal to nearly every venue on Earth, the stunning Ailsa Course at the Turnberry Resort may be the most romantic and antique place to...
Here are the future Ryder Cup venues. America seems intent on grossing out the opposing team as a strategy.
2010 The Twenty-ten course, Celtic Manor Resort, Newport, WALES
2012 Medinah No. 3, Medinah, Ill. (God, not again.)
2014 PGA Centenary Course, Gleneagles Resort, Perthshire, SCOTLAND
2016 Hazeltine National, Chaska, MN
2018 TBA
2020 Whistling Straits, Kohler, WI
BETHPAGE, NY – Had I been sitting down, I surely would have fallen out of my chair at the question: “So, Rees, is this going be the easiest U.S. Open in years?” It was a moment that woke you up with a thunderclap. It was why I love covering sports: you’re right there at the firing line in the heat of battle thinking and reacting to...